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A Sometimes Food posted:Man Pat that was a mostly reasonable assessment of Korra, but gently caress, season 1 does not have the best villains when S3 exists. Hell S4 probably beats them too. I mean, it's Pat, but that is an odd take as season one is the one that's generally regarded as the most wasted potential (and all the seasons have it to some degree).
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I the best way I heard Season 1 of Korra described was someone set up a fine, handcrafted ornate chess table and then just used it to play checkers. It is hilarious for having a huge aerial battle scene where planes explode and you instantly see people parachutes falling out of them like some bad old anime censorship. And then it ends on an explicit on-screen murder-suicide with the villain brothers.
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May 27, 2020 23:27
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There's this video series analysing the villains of the four seasons of Korra that I quite like. Basically, it examines how each of them represents a caricature of some kind of political movement as seen by clueless middle-class white guys (and not incidentally how the left-wing, egalitarian ones are treated as significantly more scary than the actual fascist you get towards the end), while hitting a bunch of other dumb poo poo along the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ModX151Ipgs
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May 28, 2020 00:15
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Nohman posted:And then it ends on an explicit on-screen murder-suicide with the villain brothers. I don't know if the rest of korra is good or not because I stopped watching after that scene.
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May 28, 2020 00:50
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That scene owned, I couldn't believe they went that hard.
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May 28, 2020 01:09
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There's one kill at the end of season three that's far more shocking.
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Captain Invictus posted:I very rarely viscerally react to a tv show I'm watching but that right there made me jump out of my seat and shout OH COME THE gently caress ON ARE YOU SERIOUS You should watch the rest, there's a lot of dumb stuff but there's also a lot of really cool + good stuff
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Captain Invictus posted:I very rarely viscerally react to a tv show I'm watching but that right there made me jump out of my seat and shout OH COME THE gently caress ON ARE YOU SERIOUS Season 2 feels very much like an impromptu puppet show they had to slap together quick after they realized the show was renewed against all odds, except for the bit about the first Avatar. I'm not a fan of the retcon/origin story they went for with the Avatar but I don't think most people care. Season 3 is substantially better. Season 4 is alright but you could tell they were rushing it because they'd finally been given a hard deadline on top of Nickelodeon doing its best to undermine and gently caress with the show's airing schedule constantly.
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May 28, 2020 03:44
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The origin story is visually interesting as an episode, I think a guest studio did it (4C?). But I don't care for the actual origin story itself, and it ties into the terrible villain of the season.
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May 28, 2020 03:46
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Dabir posted:There's this video series analysing the villains of the four seasons of Korra that I quite like. Basically, it examines how each of them represents a caricature of some kind of political movement as seen by clueless middle-class white guys (and not incidentally how the left-wing, egalitarian ones are treated as significantly more scary than the actual fascist you get towards the end), while hitting a bunch of other dumb poo poo along the way. This video series is the only Avatar content I have ever watched and, I assume, the best.
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May 28, 2020 06:34
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RareAcumen posted:To this day, I can't help but wonder how Korra would've turned out if the creators weren't kept in an armbar the entire time they were trying to make it. It's extremely wasted potential to be sure. I really love the setting of Korra, and it never feels like they get to explore it in the way they wanted to.
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May 28, 2020 12:06
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Season 3 was definitely peak korra and some excellent stuff. But Woolie is right that Avatar is best when the camera is on zuko and/or Iroh. Hell even in Korra thats true
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MorningMoon posted:Season 3 was definitely peak korra and some excellent stuff. But Woolie is right that Avatar is best when the camera is on zuko and/or Iroh. 'The Beach' is my favorite 'day in the life' episode of any series ever. Just four of these sad, weird, broken people and their found family doing things. (Yes, I know, Azula and Zuko are actual family but still.)
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May 29, 2020 17:37
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What's with Pat replacing his facecam with a closeup of Elmo? I'm not particularly complaining, but still...
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May 29, 2020 23:23
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Neo_Crimson posted:What's with Pat replacing his facecam with a closeup of Elmo? I'm not particularly complaining, but still... The AC in his house is broken, so he's shirtless because of how hot it is.
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May 29, 2020 23:35
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Shinji2015 posted:The AC in his house is broken, so he's shirtless because of how hot it is.
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May 30, 2020 00:14
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Not sure. He said that he had someone coming by to repair it, but he didn't mention a time that I'm aware of
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Shinji2015 posted:It's extremely wasted potential to be sure. I really love the setting of Korra, and it never feels like they get to explore it in the way they wanted to. I can't help but like the original more because they got to do so much more comparatively but I agree. Korra Season 2 was so dire but 3 and 4 were fantastic. I'm the kind of tedious nerd who actually cares about power levels so watching the GAang launching boulders and cutting boats in half to the very less epic in scale sequel really sucked since it felt like a lot of it was really small shots like everyone's first learning how to bend. Looked like a bunch of power waves for a ton of it. 
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May 30, 2020 01:25
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Not gonna claim I've watched a ton of Teppen players, but Woolie is easily the best to watch
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Shinji2015 posted:Not sure. He said that he had someone coming by to repair it, but he didn't mention a time that I'm aware of Was supposed to be Friday but it still isn't done and also one of the repairmen took their mask off at one point, may have coughed, then asked P&P to come into the room for something. (Remember that Paige has lupus so she's immunocompromised). When they said no, and other repairman came in, the first guy denied taking his mask off, so now they're even crankier and with good reason.
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May 31, 2020 01:45
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Pat's coming out in support of the protests and riots on Twitter, of course this is pissing off some of his fans. Hopefully this causes him to shed a few more of the shittier portions of his fanbase.
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May 31, 2020 01:58
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Viridiant posted:Pat's coming out in support of the protests and riots on Twitter, of course this is pissing off some of his fans. Hopefully this causes him to shed a few more of the shittier portions of his fanbase. Another unrelated guy I watch literally just said "gently caress racism" and guess what's a controversial statement on twitter.
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May 31, 2020 02:01
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Yeah Pat going off honestly surprised me, good on him. Paige has been retweeting fundraisers for medical stuff and bail as well and that's going about as well as you'd expect. https://twitter.com/PatStaresAt/status/1266896805985386499 
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May 31, 2020 02:02
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I'm genuinely surprised any of the boys talking about this at all, much less have a good take about this. e: Woolie also showing support on his Twitter.
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May 31, 2020 02:05
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Neo_Crimson posted:I'm genuinely surprised any of the boys talking about this at all, much less have a good take about this. They've been pretty progressive sounding for the most part when they would weigh in on something, Matt's openly waved the flag for LGBT people for a while, Woolie's talked about bits of racism before.
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Viridiant posted:Pat's coming out in support of the protests and riots on Twitter, of course this is pissing off some of his fans. Hopefully this causes him to shed a few more of the shittier portions of his fanbase. gently caress yeah
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May 31, 2020 02:19
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They got their flaws but these are all good boys.
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May 31, 2020 08:38
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You can tell who has never worked a minimum wage service job they despise in the comments. Gamer culture continues to be poo poo. Patrick Boivin owns.
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Forceholy posted:You can tell who has never worked a minimum wage service job they despise in the comments. Gamer culture continues to be poo poo. What are the obvious tells you're talking about?
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May 31, 2020 10:54
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Now Pat's retweeting Sterling who's also fighting his chud fanbase.
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Tae posted:Now Pat's retweeting Sterling who's also fighting his chud fanbase. sterling? jim sterling? jim the anti-chud sterling. how does he have a chud fanbase?
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Captain Invictus posted:sterling? jim sterling? jim the anti-chud sterling. how does he have a chud fanbase? Gamers are really good at not realizing someone is anti-chud unless they blatantly say it about a thing said chud gamer hates.
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May 31, 2020 14:33
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MagusDraco posted:Gamers are really good at not realizing someone is anti-chud unless they blatantly say it about a thing said chud gamer hates. That's true but Jim has been gleeful in his support of things a chud doesn't. That takes some serious blinders.
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May 31, 2020 15:03
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These are the same people who think Metal Gear is apolitical.
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May 31, 2020 15:06
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See, this poo poo is the reason why I play video games, but don't call myself a gamer.
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May 31, 2020 15:41
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Dawgstar posted:That's true but Jim has been gleeful in his support of things a chud doesn't. That takes some serious blinders. There are plenty of people that don't think starship troopers and robo cop are parodies
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Captain Invictus posted:sterling? jim sterling? jim the anti-chud sterling. how does he have a chud fanbase? People who hate lootboxes in games but think those are because of the jews.
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I also suspect that some might continue to watch/follow Jim because they care about the customer advocacy angle. There certainly is no shortage of "gamers" who will get mad/passionate about some pet issue that's part of the larger accessibility/customer advocacy topic while being blind/ignorant/lovely about the rest of it.
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Oxyclean posted:I also suspect that some might continue to watch/follow Jim because they care about the customer advocacy angle. There are minorities who still watch JonTron, even after he had many heated gamer moments about black people and Mexicans.
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